urge: [16] Urge was borrowed from Latin urgēre ‘push, press, compel’. Its present participle gave English urgent [15], which thus means etymologically ‘pressing’. => urgent
urge (v.)
1550s, from Latin urgere "to press hard, push forward, force, drive, compel, stimulate," from PIE root *wreg- "to push, shove, drive" (cognates: Lithuanian verziu "tie, fasten, squeeze," vargas "need, distress," vergas "slave;" Old Church Slavonic vragu "enemy;" Gothic wrikan "persecute," Old English wrecan "drive, hunt, pursue"). Related: Urged; urging.
urge (n.)
1610s, "act of urging," from urge (v.). Marked as "rare" in Century Dictionary (1902); "in frequent use from c. 1910" [OED].
例文
1. He had an urge to open a shop of his own.
彼は自分で店を開きたいと思っています。
2.He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.
彼は習慣を変えるように促す人を非難した。
3.Once inside her apartment she felt an urge to brush her teeth.
自分のアパートに帰ると、歯を磨きたい衝動に駆られる。
4.Tsvetayeva was possesed by a frenzied urge to get out of Moscow.
ツヴィタエワにはモスクワを離れたいという熱狂的な衝動がある。
5.We urge colleges and universities to demystify the selection process.